garageCube

Hello...

I am trying to setup a miniMAD installation with a series of long movies with large files sizes. The client is super concerned about the quality, and I am setting the CRF very close to lossless. However, I am running into a size limit on the miniMAD's SD card and a lot of the movies are not being encoded to the SD card. I have switched from a 16GB card to a 64GB one and run into the same issue.

Is there a size limit on the miniMADs disk image? ...or any way to increase it to match the SD card? When I get info on the SD card, it says I have a 12.13GB capacity, but 22.53 GB available.

My client needs these movies in the highest quality possible. All together I have 15 movie files in in ProRes that are 230GB in total.

I can easily get a 256GB microSD card, but my test with the 64GB card shows that there seems to be a size limit with the disk image. Or am I doing something wrong?

Please help! This client is breathing down my neck..!!

Thanks, Eric

For technical reasons, the size of one movie file is currently limited to 4GB.

For the same technical reasons, we provide miniMAD images for 8 & 16GB SD-cards that were historically bundled with the miniMAD, instead of an universal image that would resize to fit any SD-card size.

You can always experiment with tools like parted/gparted on any GNU/Linux distribution to move and resize the original partitions to maximize the MINIMAD partition space, and in worst case scenario you can just flash the original image and try again.